Early Game Ventures announces the closing of a €1 million seed round in Naratix, a 100% Romanian startup building critical infrastructure for global eCommerce companies. The funding will support the company in accelerating its growth and entering new markets. Naratix develops a complex system that combines proprietary AI agents with advanced heuristic algorithms, redefining how digital commerce operates. The platform […]

Life Is Hard (LIH), a company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange’s AeRO market, continues in the first quarter of 2026 the implementation of the directions assumed for the current year, with the objective of building a more efficient, more predictable operating model, better positioned for the company’s next development cycle.  The financial performance of the first quarter reflects the […]

AUSTRIACARD HOLDINGS AG (“AUSTRIACARD” or the “Company”) notes today’s announcement by Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. (“DNP”) of its intention to launch a voluntary public takeover offer aimed at acquiring control of AUSTRIACARD pursuant to the Austrian Takeover Act (the “Offer”). In connection with the Offer, AUSTRIACARD and DNP have entered into a memorandum of understanding setting out the principal […]

Growth in Digital Technologies and Identity & Payment solutions reinforces the strategic agenda set out at FY2025 results AUSTRIACARD HOLDINGS AG (ACAG), the international applied technology group headquartered in Vienna, announces its Q1 2026 financial results. ▪ Group Revenues of €89.4m (8% increase vs. Q1 2025), driven by solid growth in both Digital Technologies (+83% vs. Q1 2025) and Identity […]

AUSTRIACARD HOLDINGS reaffirmed its long-standing partnership with ELO Digital Office during the ELO Partner Summit Event in Barcelona, marking a collaboration that has successfully delivered more than 50 large-scale and complex enterprise content management (ECM) projects across Southeastern Europe. Building on this proven track record, AUSTRIACARD announced the integration of its GaiaB™ Appliance with the latest versions of the ELO […]

Early Game Ventures announces a $600,000 pre-seed investment in Tryll, a startup that promises to revolutionize the video game industry by solving one of the biggest challenges faced by gaming studios—integrating AI into games—without relying on costly resources such as third-party cloud services or servers. With Tryll, gaming studios can create titles in which artificial intelligence runs locally, using the […]

Acquisition enhances engineering expertise for cold-plate design, server side liquid cooling and high-density thermal validation to improve system level performance, reliability, and lifecycle outcomes Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure and continuity solutions, announced it has acquired Strategic Thermal Labs LLC (STL), a specialist in advanced liquid-cooling technologies. The acquisition extends Vertiv’s thermal-chain strategy by strengthening […]

FOMO – The Festival Of Modern Owners announces the launch of tickets for the secondary stages of its 2026 edition, where Romanian entrepreneurs, experts, and creators—those actively shaping the local business ecosystem—will take the stage. The new tickets, available at a price of 351 RON, offer access to a substantial part of the festival’s content, focused on relevant experiences, practical […]

Transaction expected to increase customer optionality across the thermal chain to optimize power utilization and energy efficiency for AI-ready data centers Vertiv (NYSE: VRT), a global leader in critical digital infrastructure, today announced it has entered into an agreement to acquire ThermoKey S.p.A., a leading provider of heat rejection and heat-exchange technologies with long-standing relationships across original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) […]

Digital Technologies, Document Lifecycle Management and Identity solutions spearhead a substantial H2 rebound, with adjusted EBITDA up 23% vs. H2 2024 ▪ Group Revenues of €360.2m (8% reduction vs. FY2024), adversely impacted by the normalization in the Turkish payment card market as well as by the unfavourable base effect from FY2024 of metal card sales to a Fintech client in Europe, […]

Connections, a technology company listed on the Bucharest Stock Exchange (BVB), on the AeRO market, under the ticker symbol CC, closed 2025 with a record net profit of RON 35.5 million, up 301% compared to 2024. At the end of last year, turnover reached RON 152.5 million, up 44% year-on-year. Connections fully eliminated its long-term debt and substantially reduced its […]

SD Worx, the European leader in HR and payroll solutions, with operations in Romania as well, closed 2025 with strong financial results. Consolidated revenue increased by 10.7% to €1.307 billion, while adjusted EBITDA reached €271.2 million (+16.5%). For the first time, consolidated net profit exceeded the €100 million threshold, reaching €101.4 million (+6.9%). This performance supports the company’s continued investments […]